I haven't done but you should have no problems with duplicate from w2k8 to w2k3 unless there is unexpected bug.
You would think you want to upgrade your test system OS anyway, though. Cheers, Alex On 21/03/2009, at 5:44 AM, William Wagman wrote:
Greetings,Our test/development databases are on Oracle 10.2.0.4.0 64-bit running on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 edition, v5.2 SP2. We have just moved our production database, also Oracle 10.2.0.4.0 64- bit to a box running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, v6.0 SP1. I now want to use RMAN to clone a copy of our production database to the test/development box. I must admit I haven't tried it yet (when in doubt, try it out?) and my question is whether RMAN sees these two Operating Systems as the same platform or are they different enough that I will have to use export/import via the datapump to make this move.Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
